Revenge Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHIH AJAJ KLKL MNON PHPH QRQS| Ay gaze upon her rose wreathed hair | A |
| And gaze upon her smile | B |
| Seem as you drank the very air | A |
| Her breath perfumed the while | B |
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| And wake for her the gifted line | C |
| That wild and witching lay | D |
| And swear your heart is as a shrine | C |
| That only owns her sway | D |
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| 'Tis well I am revenged at last | E |
| Mark you that scornful cheek | F |
| The eye averted as you pass'd | E |
| Spoke more than words could speak | F |
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| Ay now by all the bitter tears | G |
| That I have shed for thee | H |
| The racking doubts the burning fears | I |
| Avenged they well may be | H |
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| By the nights pass'd in sleepless care | A |
| The days of endless woe | J |
| All that you taught my heart to bear | A |
| All that yourself will know | J |
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| I would not wish to see you laid | K |
| Within an early tomb | L |
| I should forget how you betray'd | K |
| And only weep your doom | L |
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| But this is fitting punishment | M |
| To live and love in vain | N |
| Oh my wrung heart be thou content | O |
| And feed upon his pain | N |
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| Go thou and watch her lightest sigh | P |
| Thine own it will not be | H |
| And bask beneath her sunny eye | P |
| It will not turn on thee | H |
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| 'Tis well the rack the chain the wheel | Q |
| Far better hadst thou proved | R |
| Ev'n I could almost pity feel | Q |
| For thou art nor beloved | S |
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
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